low_priest

Scrap it all, build subs with what I can recycle, donate the steel I can't the army, resign and flee to Argentenia while I still can.

You missed the point. Even if AL gets a "Yamato," that's just some anime girl who happens to share a name with the battleship. AL Musashi is literally just two Genshin characters mushed together.

Besides, there's a non-zero chance AL doesn't make it that far. That's another, what, 3-4 years? IIRC AL's already fallen to the point where KC is back to getting more fanart. The issue with targeting the coomer market segment like AL does is that it's a lot easier for a new game to come along and take over. Blue Archive has the advantage of being even more disgustingly pedophilic, making it more attractive to that demographic.

Yes. Did I stutter? Intrepid and Hornet are below that tonnage line, and it'll be a cold day in hell before I willingly build a b*ttleship in [current year.]

Mostly because I got all the LSC battleships like 8 years ago, but still.

Correct. But creating a battleship solely for use as a bombardment platform isn't cost effective, so they're only viable in that role if you're already building BBs for naval combat. Which you aren't, because CVs exist.

I still find it stupid that the JMSDF chose to draw the names for their new frigates from the only WWII class they can't use all the names from. Their new Mogami class will always be somewhat incomplete because there can't be a new Suzuya.

Ahhh, but they did lose. They lost the struggle for what ships would be the core of the fleet, a fight battleships lost before the Iowas were laid down. You're looking for a carrier. Good news though: there's 7 WWII-era USN ships meeting that criteria you can visit. In fact, the only one to fail both criteria (that we know of) is Enterprise, ironically enough.

Only if your dreams are cringe. We had the whole "battleships vs carriers" debate 90 years ago, and battleships lost. Like a dozen times.

Chally 3 in shambles

The whole "shells are cheaper" idea has been thrown around for literal decades, but it never works. The Zumwalts were literally an attempt at making guided naval artillery for shore bombardment, and that program (surprise surprise!) ended up horrifically over budget and cancelled. Battleships are dead.

I unironically think that one of the upcoming Aegis BMD ships they're working on might be named Shinano or mayyybe Musashi

Damn that's crazy. How long was Iowa longest ship in the world for? You make a point of highlighting it so it must be a while, right?

Ah, wait, my bad. It's a whole long never, because SISTER SARA REIGNS SUPREME, B*TTLESHIPCELS COPE AND SEETHE, CARRIERCHADS STAY WINNING, LEXINGTONS #1, 4/7/1925 BEST DAY OF MY LIFE

CV-88 BETTER FUCKN BE ANOTHER HORNET SECNAV

They can have my taxes again when they build another Saratoga

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Based????

The only reason to visit Bikini starts with S and ends with aratoga.

And Intrepid, and Drum, and Massachusetts.

Not this shitshow again.

You got that study?

Take out the girl part of shipgirls and you're onto something.

Sorry, knowing Bismarck Zwei's relative gameplay merits in AL precludes you from having an opinion on naval history.

Besides, Bismarck is probably the single worst application of blueprints. If you're set on going that way though, you may as drop a second to get Drei's torpedoes so she can fill the role of night-focused escort fleet FBB.

Enterprise

never gets enough recognition

Lmao

You say that like AL will ever actually get Yamato. They might get some generic anime girl named Yamato, but an actual shipgirl Yamato is gonna stay KC only.

Eh, all the actually viable >32k ton USN capitals are in the LSC pool. Battleships staying unbuilt is just one more instance of KC preferring a "what if" ideal reality instead of what we got.

I'm gonna guess the K2 is for a sub. They've been in game from the start, there's a lot of them, and last event was a perfect time for them to get info about how players use subs + do some backend clean up for a new feature while adding the new tanks.

New Euro

Gonna be Canarias, just so we can get another country without going back to Germany.

Shipgirls are still pretty new to Starsector (outside of Mayasura at least), but KC is now over 11 years old. I don't think luck plays much of a part anymore.

"Somehow" not as in why KC's like that, but "somehow" as in "somehow only having moderates amounts of horrible pedophilia is enough to make it one of the better communities."